The new literary season is a bit like a packet of popcorn at the movies: everything looks wonderful at first glance, but once you've plunged your hand into the mass, there's nothing but hard kernels. So to avoid this, let's exhume a little gem published in 1987 in the United States.
After the first volume, «The City in Flames», Don Winslow returns this year with «The City of Dreams», a long journey inspired this time by Virgil's «Aeneid». Between wanderings and realizations, what is the value of this continuation of Danny Ryan's adventures?
A new novel by American author Joyce Maynard, «Where the Happy People Lived» tells the story of a mother and wife's journey, peppered with failures and renunciations, but also with calm and smiles. A story partly inspired by her own life. And, yes, it shook me.
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
Hope Jahren makes a veritable declaration of love to science and trees in this autobiographical account, which has the «precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist», according to the New York Times.
With «Harlem Shuffle», American novelist Colson Whitehead delivers the tale of a black Harlem shopkeeper prey to the demons of his neighborhood. A breathtaking story.
Premier roman de l’auteure anglaise Coco Mellors, Cléopâtre et Frankenstein a paru cet automne en français, après avoir fait un...
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